CVE-2011-1023
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
7 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not properly handle congestion map updates, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) via vectors involving (1) a loopback (aka loop) transmit operation or (2) an InfiniBand (aka ib) transmit operation.
Affected configurations
References
ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6094628bfd94323fc1cea05ec2c6affd98c18f7f
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/03/2
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680345
github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6094628bfd94323fc1cea05ec2c6affd98c18f7f
Related
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
7 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%